M 5.4 in Indonesia on 16 May 2018 02:12 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1143242
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 88.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.7939 , 138.6013
Event Date: 16 May 2018 02:12 UTC
16 May 2018 11:12 Local
Exposed Population:
500000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2018 02:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000e61u Scaled population (vector) 5.85  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 93 | About casualties: 42 | Last hour: 0

Tracking precipitation planetwideThu, 17 May 2018 16:56:00 +0200.

UC Irvine engineering professor Soroosh Sorooshian spent the holiday break closely monitoring the heavy rains – not just at home but half a world away. Unlike local forecasters, he and his colleagues aim to help whole nations grapple with d
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Is the Ring of Fire more active with volcanoes, earthquakes than usual ... Tue, 15 May 2018 16:51:00 +0200.

Reports of earthquakes and volcano eruptions in regions along the Ring of Fire might lead some to believe that the level of activity in recent months is above average. The approximately 25,000-mile-long, horseshoe-shaped Ring of Fire outlin
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China: China Focus: China strengthens early tsunami warning systemMon, 14 May 2018 09:00:00 +0200.

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China has deployed two tsunami buoy systems in the South China Sea that can issue an alert two hours before seismic sea waves arrive, the Science and Technology Daily reported Friday. The buoys are located near t
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Dónde están los volcanes más peligrosos de Estados UnidosMon, 14 May 2018 06:15:00 +0200.

Si bien las imágenes de los flujos de lava que demuelen casas y engullen automóviles son aterradoras, hasta el momento no se han reportado muertes causadas por la actividad volcánica. Los hallazgos de una base de datos de muertes de volcane
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),